Underground and on the Run

Published: April 21, 2021, 11:01 p.m.

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Patricia J. Williams to discuss \\u2018Giving a Damn: Racism, romance and Gone with the Wind\\u2019, Williams\\u2019s deeply researched, and deeply felt, essay on the roots and legacy of racial injustice in the United States; Douglas Field considers a novel about a \'human mole\' by Richard Wright, the African American writer best known for \'Native Son\', which now sees the light of day, eighty years after it was written; plus Sylvia Plath\\u2019s domestic embellishments and the greatest novels of the twenty-first century to date (cont.)


Giving a Damn: Racism, romance and \'Gone with the Wind\' by Patricia J. Williams, published next week by TLS Books 

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright


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Producer: Ben Mitchell



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